DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

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

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2016

2015

1983

2021

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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