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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 H2Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgvitess.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homevitess.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162013201320132019
Current release4.1.0, June 202215.0.2, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, 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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2yes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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