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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score70.06
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonAmazonMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162012200720151987
Current releaseV1Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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