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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregeode.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Chris DavisSpotify
Initial release20162002200620142005
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnoneyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyes, on a single nodenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights per client and object definablenoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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