DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Elastic

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2010

2013

1992

2011

Current release

8.6, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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