DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. SiriDB

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

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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