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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EXASOL vs. KeyDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EXASOL vs. KeyDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score97.61
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#139  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecassandra.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookExasolEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Simer Plaha
Initial release20162008200020192018
Current release5.0-rc1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsLuano
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache CassandraEXASOLKeyDBSwayDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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