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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  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 ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBElastic
Initial release20162007201220162010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
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 applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
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)yes (enterprise version only)yes

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