DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2014

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

based on PostgreSQL

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL won the April ranking; did its forks follow?
1 April 2015, Paul Andlinger

Has MySQL finally lost its mojo?
1 July 2013, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Top data analytics tools comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM
5 December 2019, Wire19

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
16 April 2024, Datanami

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

25 Best Cloud Service Providers (Public and Private) in 2024
4 June 2023, CybersecurityNews

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
19 April 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Share this page