DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Citus vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Citus vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.citusdata.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.citusdata.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2010

2009

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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