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

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

geode.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

postgis.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

geode.apache.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Spotify

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2002

2014

2005

2011

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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