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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 ScioreFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.aitypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastertypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbVaticle
Initial release20162007198320092016
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
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 integritynonoyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
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)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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