DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Blazegraph

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2012

2013

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.0.7075, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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)

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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