DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenQM vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenQM vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cassandra.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Konrad von Backstrom

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2008

2018

1993

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

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"

none

yes

Automatic sharding

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

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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