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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 HBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storephoenix.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorephoenix.apache.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20162014201219912014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.1.3, April 20225.710 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
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-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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