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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory caching systemThe 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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcachelot.iowww.enterprisedb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonEnterpriseDBRockset
Initial release20162012201520052019
Current release14, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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