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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Neptune vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Neptune vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCognitectCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20162017201620122014
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.selectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnono

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