DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph 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

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

phoenix.apache.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2013

Current release

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

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

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

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

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Licensing and pricing models

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