DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. JSqlDb

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

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Name

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

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#306	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#214	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Blazegraph

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2018

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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)

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

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