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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Greenplum vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Greenplum vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgreenplum.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.greenplum.orgspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticPivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20162013201020052014
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 20237.0.0, September 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
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.nononoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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