DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. VoltDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of H2

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	10.22
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#155	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

CNRS

Hypertable Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

based on H2

Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

based on H2

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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