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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Databend vs. Datomic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Databend vs. Datomic

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.datomic.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.databend.comdocs.datomic.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDatabend LabsCognitect
Initial release2016201320212012
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.59, April 20231.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++RustJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoTransaction Functions
TriggersnononoBy using transaction functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno

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