DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Geode vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Geode vs. Realm 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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

geode.apache.org/docs

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2002

2014

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes, on a single node

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

In-Memory realm

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

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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