DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Amazon

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2014

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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