DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2004

2012

2014

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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