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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 databaseA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.aigithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
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Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbYandex
Initial release20162007198320092019
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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 languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesno
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
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 factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
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
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 trailAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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