DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

galaxybase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2013

2022

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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