DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Memgraph vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

memgraph.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

memgraph.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.objectbox.io

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2013

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

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

dynamic graph partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

with snapshot isolation

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

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)

Users, roles and permissions

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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