DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store 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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

drill.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2017

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.10, January 2022

2.0

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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