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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsSQream Technologies
Initial release20162007201220162017
Current release29.0.1, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL for queryingnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes

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