DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Dolt

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Dolt

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.dolthub.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Cockroach Labs

DoltHub Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2018

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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