DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. JaguarDB

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.atoti.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ActiveViam

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

rights management via user accounts

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