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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. H2GIS

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

impala.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bangdb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CNRS

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

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