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

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

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

impala.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2016

2013

1979

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

V3, October 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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