DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Speedb

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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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	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.eventstore.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.eventstore.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Event Store Limited

SiteWhere

Speedb

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2020

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

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

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

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