DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Realm

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Percona

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2014

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

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

via In-Memory Engine

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 and roles

yes

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