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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storepinot.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016201520152014
Current release1.0.0, September 202324.1.0, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
Python
R
Scala
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 RAFTyes, utilizing Spark Core
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 methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlno

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