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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoMesa

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCCRi and others
Initial release201620132014
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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