DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the 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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

apple.github.io/foundationdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1984

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

7.9.10.12, February 2024

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

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Linearizable consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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 operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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