DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

geode.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

geode.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2013

2002

2014

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.1, February 2017

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

none

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

depending on storage layer

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

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 rights per client and object definable

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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