DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. ObjectBox

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Name

JSqlDB 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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series 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	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

jsqldb.org (offline)

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

Konrad von Backstrom

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2010

2018

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

8.6, January 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

using RocksDB

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

Memcached and Redis integration

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

yes

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