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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DuckDB vs. PostGIS vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DuckDB vs. PostGIS vs. StarRocks

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeduckdb.orgpostgis.netwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreduckdb.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAlibabaThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2016201820052020
Current release0.10, February 20243.4.2, February 20242.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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