DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. eXtremeDB vs. GridGain vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. eXtremeDB vs. GridGain vs. InfinityDB

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

McObject

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2007

2002

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.2, 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by defining events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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