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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201320132012
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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 regionnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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 Kerberosnono

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