DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

druid.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2012

1989

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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