DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search

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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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.citusdata.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.citusdata.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Manticore Software

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

1991

2017

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.7

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

user defined functions

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

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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