DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#267	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

1987

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

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)

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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