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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release20162013201020042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release155858.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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