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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonBlazegraphGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release2016201220062012
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSPARQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes, based on authentication and database rules

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