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

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

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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

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

2010

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.3, June 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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