Comparison of structured storage software

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Not to be confused with COM Structured Storage.

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Structured storage is computer storage for structured data, often in the form of a distributed database.^[1] Computer software formally known as structured storage systems include Apache Cassandra,^[2] Google's Bigtable^[3] and Apache HBase.^[4]

Comparison

The following is a comparison of notable structured storage systems.

Project Name	Type	Persistence	Replication	High Availability	Transactions	Rack-locality Awareness	Implementation Language	Influences, Sponsors	License
Aerospike	NoSQL database	Yes, Hybrid DRAM and flash for persistence	Yes	Yes, Distributed for scale	Yes	Yes	C (small bits of assembly language)	Aerospike	AGPL v3
AllegroGraph	Graph database	Yes	No - v5, 2010	Yes	Yes	No	Common Lisp	Franz Inc.	Proprietary
Apache Ignite	Key-value	To and from an underlying persistent storage (e.g. an RDBMS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Java	Apache, GridGain Systems	Apache 2.0
Apache Jackrabbit	Key-value & Hierarchical & Document	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	likely	Java	Apache, Roy Fielding, Day Software	Apache 2.0
Berkeley DB/Dbm 1.x	Key-value	Yes	No	No	No	No	C	old school	Various
Berkeley DB Sleepycat/Oracle Berkeley DB 5.x	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	C, C++, or Java	dbm, Sleepycat/Oracle	dual GPL-like Sleepycat License
Apache Cassandra	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Distributed	Partial Only supports CAS (Check And Set) after 2.1.1 and later[5][6]	Yes	Java	Dynamo and Bigtable, Facebook/Digg/Rackspace	Apache 2.0
ClustrixDB	scale-out relational	Yes	Yes	Distributed and Replication	Yes	No	C	Clustrix	Proprietary
Coherence	Key-value	Persistent data typically in an RDBMS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Java	Oracle (previously Tangosol)	Proprietary
Oracle NoSQL Database	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Java	Oracle	AGPLv3 License or proprietary
Couchbase	Document	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, with two-phase commits[7]	Yes	C++, Erlang, C,[8] Go	CouchDB, Memcached	Apache 2.0
CouchDB	Document	Yes	Yes	replication + load balancing	Atomicity is per document, per CouchDB instance[9]	No	Erlang	Lotus Notes / Ubuntu, Mozilla, IBM	Apache 2.0
Extensible Storage Engine(ESE/NT)	Document or Key-value	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	C++, Assembly	Microsoft	Proprietary
FoundationDB	Ordered Key-value	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Depends on user configuration	C++	FoundationDB	Proprietary
GT.M	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Depends on user configuration	C (small bits of assembly language)	FIS	AGPL v3
Project Name	Type	Persistence	Replication	High Availability	Transactions	Rack-locality Awareness	Implementation Language	Influences, Sponsors	License
Apache HBase	Key-value	Yes. Major version upgrades require re-import.	Yes HDFS,[10] Amazon S3[11] or Amazon Elastic Block Store.[12]	Yes[13]	Yes[14]	See HDFS, S3 or EBS.	Java	Bigtable	Apache 2.0
Information Management System IBM IMS aka DB1	Key-value. Multi-level	Yes	Yes	Yes, with HALDB	Yes, with IMS TM	Unknown	Assembler	IBM since 1966	Proprietary
Infinispan	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Java	Red Hat	Apache 2.0
Memcached	Key-value	No	No	No	Partial Only supports CAS (Check And Set - or Compare And Swap)[15][16]	No	C	Six Apart/Couchbase/Fotolog/Facebook	BSD-like permissive copyright by Danga
LevelDB	Key-value, Bigtable	Yes	No	No	Partial Multiple writes can be combined into single operation	No	C++	Google	New BSD License
LightningDB	Key-value, memory-mapped files	Yes	No	No	Yes, ACID, MVCC	No	C	Symas	OpenLDAP Public License
MongoDB	Document (JSON)	Yes	Yes	fail-over	Partial Single document atomicity[17]	No	C++	10gen	GNU AGPL v3.0
Neo4j	Graph database	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Java	Neo Technology	GNU GPL v3.0
OrientDB	Multi-Model (Graph-Document-Object-Key/Value)	Yes	Yes[18]	Yes[19]	Yes[20]	Yes	Java	Orient Technologies	Apache 2.0
Redis	Key-value	Yes. But last few queries can be lost.[21]	Yes	Yes[22]	Yes[23]	No	Ansi-C	VMWare, Memcache	BSD
ScyllaDB	Key-value	Yes	Yes	Distributed and Replication[24]	No[25]	Unknown	C++	Apache Cassandra	AGPL v3
SimpleDB (Amazon.com)	Document & Key-value	Yes	Yes (automatic)	Yes	Unknown	likely	Erlang	Amazon.com	Amazon internal only
Tarantool	Free-dimensional tuples with primary and secondary keys	Yes. (Asynchronous)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	C, Lua[26]	Memcached, Mnesia, MySQL, Mail.ru	BSD
Project Name	Type	Persistence	Replication	High Availability	Transactions	Rack-locality Awareness	Implementation Language	Influences, Sponsors	License

See also

• NoSQL

References

1. ^ Hamilton, James (3 November 2009). "Perspectives: One Size Does Not Fit All". Retrieved 13 November 2009.
2. ^ Lakshman, Avinash; Malik, Prashant. "Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System" (PDF). Cornell University. Retrieved 13 November 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. ^ Chang, Fay; Jeffrey Dean; Sanjay Ghemawat; Wilson C. Hsieh; Deborah A. Wallach; Mike Burrows; Tushar Chandra; Andrew Fikes; Robert E. Gruber. "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. ^ Kellerman, Jim. "HBase: structured storage of sparse data for Hadoop" (PDF). Retrieved 20 February 2016.
5. ^ java - Cassandra - transaction support - Stack Overflow
6. ^ Lightweight transactions
7. ^ Providing transactional logic
8. ^ Damien Katz (January 8, 2013). "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C". Retrieved September 30, 2016.
9. ^ "How do I use transactions with CouchDB?". Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2012-07-12.
10. ^ HBase: Bigtable-like structured storage for Hadoop HDFS
11. ^ HBase on EC2^{[permanent dead link]}
12. ^ HBase on EC2 using EBS volumes : Lessons Learned | My AWS Musings
13. ^ Hbase/MultipleMasters - Hadoop Wiki
14. ^ ACID in HBase
15. ^ sql - Memcache with transactions? - Stack Overflow
16. ^ Memcached
17. ^ Atomic Operations - MongoDB
18. ^ "OrientDB Replication". Archived from the original on 2014-12-28. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
19. ^ "OrientDB Distributed Architecture Lifecycle". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
20. ^ "OrientDB Transactions". Archived from the original on 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
21. ^ Redis Persistence
22. ^ high availability - Redis master/slave replication - single point of failure? - Stack Overflow
23. ^ Transactions – Redis
24. ^ "Scylla Architecture - Fault Tolerance". Scylla Docs. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
25. ^ "Scylla Apache Cassandra Compatibility". Scylla Docs. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
26. ^ "Tarantool". GitHub. 29 April 2022.