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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 ScioreEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.esgyn.cnspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonEsgynOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162007201520092014
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 automaticallyyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored ProceduresErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityno

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