DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Heroic 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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2005

2014

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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