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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2019

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic single-document 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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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