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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.esgyn.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Google

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2021

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

none

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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