DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics 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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.datomic.com

www.hawkular.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.datomic.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

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, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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