DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org

bigobject.io

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.bigobject.io

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BigObject, Inc.

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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