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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. openGauss vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. openGauss vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A 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 metricAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeNative XML DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHElasticHuawei and openGauss communityJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162007201020192019
Current release10.7, August 20238.6, January 20233.0, March 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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