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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Pinot vs. CockroachDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

pinot.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cockroach Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2015

1995

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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