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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Coveo vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox 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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.coveo.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.coveo.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Coveo

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2017

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

yes

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

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