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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

ignite.apache.org

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2019

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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