DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cassandra vs. CockroachDB vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cassandra vs. CockroachDB vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

CockroachDB 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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cassandra.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cockroach Labs

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Manticore Software

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2005

2017

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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