DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. Immudb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. Immudb 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.immudb.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Codenotary

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2020

2013

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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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