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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dolt vs. openGauss

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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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolthub.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

DoltHub Inc

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2019

Current release

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

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 (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

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.

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)

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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