DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. XTDB

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

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2007

2019

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

14.1, August 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on H2

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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