DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

druid.apache.org

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2013

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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