DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI 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

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	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.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

docs.heavy.ai

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1979

2016

2014

2021

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

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

ANSI C, C++

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

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

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

when using SQL

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

across SQL and NoSQL

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

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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