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

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

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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

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

druid.apache.org

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

1999

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

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++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

HP-UX
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

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

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