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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
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 cloudRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchrocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20162012201520132014
Current release3.0.0, September 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitednoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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