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

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

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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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column 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	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

google.github.io/lovefield

trino.io

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

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Amazon

Google

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

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

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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)

SQL standard access control

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