DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Google

Chris Davis

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

2006

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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