DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Dgraph vs. GreptimeDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Dgraph vs. GreptimeDB

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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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

dgraph.io

greptime.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

dgraph.io/docs

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2016

2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

none

Immediate 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

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.

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)

Planned for future releases

Simple rights management via user accounts

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