DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. HBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. HBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational 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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hbase.apache.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

optional

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

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)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

token access

Access rights for users and roles

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