DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebolt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebolt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

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)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.firebolt.io

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2020

2014

2013

2017

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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