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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.datomic.com

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.datomic.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2013

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Hooks

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

horizontal partitioning

none

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

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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