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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 durabilityCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.datomic.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCognitectOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2016201320122005
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.7180, July 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
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 indexesnoyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
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 peersMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
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 developmentno
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-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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