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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Hazelcast vs. RethinkDB

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

hazelcast.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Hazelcast

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2015

2008

2009

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Role-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

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