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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 cloudCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCockroach LabsSybase, SAP
Initial release20162012201520131993
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
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 integritynonoyesnoyes
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 regionACIDnoACID
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.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
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)Role-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAmazon DynamoDBCockroachDBInfluxDBSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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