DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hyprcubd vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hyprcubd vs. XTDB

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Name

Hyprcubd 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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Cloudflare

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (https)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

token access

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