DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

blazegraph.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

wiki.blazegraph.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Blazegraph

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2014

2009

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

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
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

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

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

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

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