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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 HBaseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storephoenix.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.postgres-xl.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorephoenix.apache.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2016201419912014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.710 R1, October 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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 SQLnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyesyesnoyes
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 can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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