DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.harperdb.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.harperdb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba

HarperDB

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2013

2023

Current release

3.1, August 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 data manipulation statements

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

Access Control Lists

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