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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorephoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20162014201620142017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesnoRole-based access control

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