DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS

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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

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.gridgain.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Elastic

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2007

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.6, January 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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