DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

phoenix.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Kyligence, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2016

2013

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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