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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. NCache

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncAlachisoft
Initial release20122012201220182005
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v2.00.4, January 20225.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanononoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDnoyesoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, GroupsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftApache DrillDolphinDBNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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