DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Riak TS

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

impala.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Amazon Web Services

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2021

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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