DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph 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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2011

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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