DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. EDB Postgres vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. EDB Postgres vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.enterprisedb.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

DGraph Labs

EnterpriseDB

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2005

2016

Current release

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

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

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source 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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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