DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. EventStoreDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. EventStoreDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

impala.apache.org

www.eventstore.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developers.eventstore.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Event Store Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual 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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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