DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cubrid.org/manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2013

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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