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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.datomic.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCognitectSAP infoformerly SybaseMireo
Initial release20162013201219922020
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.6735, June 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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