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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Badger vs. DataFS vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

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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	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

newdatabase.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

DGraph Labs

Mobiland AG

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles

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