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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Faircom DB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score70.06
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201219792012
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V13, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno

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