DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2013

2008

2013

2022

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

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 (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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