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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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.A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCCRi and othersMonetDB BV
Initial release2016201320142004
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layernone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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