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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgplanetscale.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsPlanetScale
Initial release2016201220202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release29.0.1, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
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 enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACID at shard levelACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
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 systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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