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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

pinot.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.pinot.apache.org

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2008

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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