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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecassandra.apache.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by Facebookquasardb
Initial release20122013201320082009
Current release4.1.0, June 2022155854.1.3, July 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per objectCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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