DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#306	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.38
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

rethinkdb.com

www.vertica.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2009

2015

2005

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

range based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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