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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Hypertable vs. Linter vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopRDBMS for high security requirementsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.10
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storelinter.rusphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudHypertable Inc.relex.ruSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162012200919902001
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding 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 serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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