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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release20162012201220142015
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.6735, June 20232.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoyes infousing Azure authentication

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