DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

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

depending on model

yes

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

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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