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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Memcached vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial extension of H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162013201320032019
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.6.25, March 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, each node contains all data
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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