DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used open source RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.mysql.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2005

1995

2017

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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