DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.jaguardb.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2015

1984

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

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.

yes

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)

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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