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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used open source RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score77.72
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.mysql.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdev.mysql.com/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseAmazonOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20161999201219952016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20238.3.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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