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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. InfinityDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeboilerbay.comwww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaBoiler Bay Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201620022014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20012018
Current release4.010 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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