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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 dataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2016201220142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release29.0.1, April 202410 R1, October 2018v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononono
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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