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Comparison of structured storage software

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

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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 Bigtable3 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 later56 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 commits7 Yes C++, Erlang, C,8 Go CouchDB, Memcached Apache 2.0
CouchDB Document Yes Yes replication + load balancing Atomicity is per document, per CouchDB instance9 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 S311 or Amazon Elastic Block Store.12 Yes13 Yes14 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)1516 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 atomicity17 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 Yes18 Yes19 Yes20 Yes Java Orient Technologies Apache 2.0
Redis Key-value Yes. But last few queries can be lost.21 Yes Yes22 Yes23 No Ansi-C VMWare, Memcache BSD
ScyllaDB Key-value Yes Yes Distributed and Replication24 No25 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, Lua26 Memcached, Mnesia, MySQL, Mail.ru BSD
Project name Type Persistence Replication High Availability Transactions Rack-locality Awareness Implementation Language Influences, Sponsors License
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References

References

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