DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB

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

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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

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Circonus LLC.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2004

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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