DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2015

2000

2013

2017

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

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