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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162017201420052014
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDACID
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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