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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. NCache vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.esgyn.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Elastic

Esgyn

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2005

2014

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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