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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic 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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cassandra.apache.org

galaxybase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

2014

2013

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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