DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datomic.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Cognitect

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

JavaScript

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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