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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.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 metric
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblueflood.iowww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datastax.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceDataStaxElastic
Initial release2016201320112010
Current release6.8, April 20208.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBluefloodDatastax EnterpriseElasticsearch
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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