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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. etcd vs. eXtremeDB vs. Hive

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDataStax 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 reliable key-value storeNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterpriseetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.mcobject.comhive.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datastax.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxMcObjectApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2016201120012012
Current release6.8, April 20203.4, August 20198.2, 20213.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces available
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersnoyesyes, watching key changesyes infoby defining eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning / shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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