DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached vs. SAP IQ

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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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2012

2003

1994

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

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

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)

token access

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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