DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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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.

Yanza 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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series 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	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

velocitydb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

VelocityDB Inc

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2015

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.Net

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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