DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Derby vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. Derby vs. PouchDB

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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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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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	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

1997

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

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

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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