DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hive vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hive vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

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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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hive.apache.org

realm.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

realm.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

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

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

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 rights for users, groups and roles

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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