DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Alibaba

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2016

2023

2014

2022

Current release

1.0, March 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

JSON types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Password-based authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and Roles

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