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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

altibase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

1999

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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