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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasequestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.citusdata.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9questdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162012201019912014
Current release8.1, December 20185.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
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
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 regionACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAmazon DynamoDBCitusjBASEQuestDB
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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