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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

impala.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Circonus LLC.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

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