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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  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 latencyDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storepinot.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectCCRi and othersMicrosoft
Initial release20162015201220142010
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.6735, June 20234.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureScala.NET and C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VM.NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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