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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. HugeGraph vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
questdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticBaiduQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162009201020182014
Current release3.10.0, March 20228.6, January 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectorvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoUsers, roles and permissions
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreEhcacheElasticsearchHugeGraphQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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