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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Hypertable

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#373  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationFatCloudHypertable Inc.
Initial release20162013197920122009
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V3, October 20200.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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