DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. WakandaDB

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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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	70.95
Rank	#17	Overall
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	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

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)

yes

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