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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  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 ScioreCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2016200720122014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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)yes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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