DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. Solr

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial 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	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

pouchdb.com/guides

ravendb.net/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

2006

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

5.4, July 2022

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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