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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.citusdata.comgeospock.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpock
Initial release201620102008
Current release8.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20122.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCC++Java, Javascript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersnoyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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