DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Warp 10

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datomic.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Cognitect

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SenX

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2015

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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)

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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