DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2019

2012

2015

2009

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux
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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic single-document operations

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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