DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. ArcadeDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. ArcadeDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

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Name

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

arcadedb.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Arcade Data

Atos Convergence Creators

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2021

2016

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

September 2021

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

LDAP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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