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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#331	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	30.22
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Initial release

2016

2005

Current release

3.3.2, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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