DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2004

2017

1995

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

6.0, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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