DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. jBASE vs. NCache

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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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	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

1991

2005

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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.

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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