DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. XTDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.h2gis.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

CNRS

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2012

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on H2

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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