DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale

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Name

IRONdb 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

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

Circonus LLC.

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2017

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in Lua

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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