DBMS > Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

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

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.scylladb.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

ScyllaDB

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1999

2013

2015

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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