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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Pinecone vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Pinecone vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iovictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaPinecone Systems, IncVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2016201320192018
Current release4.1.0, June 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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