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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.esgyn.cnhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaEsgynApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162015200820172001
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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