DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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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	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

IBM

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

1983

host version

2009

2022

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

12.1, October 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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