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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.cockroachlabs.comen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaCockroach LabsSpotify
Initial release2016201520162014
Current release24.1.0, May 20241.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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