DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.69
Rank	#237	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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