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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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 processesA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegeode.apache.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregeode.apache.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.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.HazelcastSpotify
Initial release20162002200820142005
Current release1.1, February 20175.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoEventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual 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 nodeone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights per client and object definableRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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