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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 toolsHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score76.49
Rank#15  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score14.15
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score6.49
Rank#53  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftkx.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcode.kx.com
DeveloperAmazonAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release201220122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release3.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageCq
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes
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 regionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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-standardrights management via user accounts

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