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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Kylin vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Kylin vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storekylin.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iomanticoresearch.comwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorekylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncHarperDBManticore SoftwarePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20162015201720171989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.1, August 20216.0, February 202316.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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