DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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 fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

hazelcast.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Hazelcast

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2013

2001

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

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

Replicated Map

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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