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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill

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Name

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	69.12
Rank	#17	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

Current release

1.17.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

none

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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 info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

In-memory capabilities info

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts info

Access control

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

Depending on the underlying data source

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