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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. StarRocks

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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 dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2016201220112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release30.0.0, June 202410 R1, October 20183.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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