DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EXASOL vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EXASOL vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.exasol.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.exasol.com/resources

dev.mysql.com/doc

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Qdrant

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2000

1995

2021

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Key-based authentication

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