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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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