DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databend vs. Derby vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databend vs. Derby vs. OpenMLDB

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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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

db.apache.org/derby

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.databend.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Databend Labs

Apache Software Foundation

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2021

1997

2020

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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