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

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

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Blazegraph

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2013

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.1.5, March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

extended commercial license available

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

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

SQL for querying

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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