DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Vertica

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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

In-memory caching system

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cachelot.io

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Google

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2017

2005

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java
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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on 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

Strict serializable isolation

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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