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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.mysql.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

1995

2013

2020

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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