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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Pinot vs. CockroachDB vs. SQL.JS

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyCockroachDB 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.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storepinot.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsCockroach LabsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201520152012
Current release1.0.0, September 202324.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBCJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlno

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