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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFull-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 ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaThomas MuellerSpotifyQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20162005201420142013
Current release2.2.220, July 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID for single-table writesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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