DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

hive.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2012

1991

2021

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

5.7

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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 for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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