DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

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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.

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2013

1987

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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