DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2007

2004

2014

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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