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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Badger vs. HBase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2008

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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