DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. EJDB vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. EJDB vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Softmotions

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2012

1984

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

15585

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users and groups

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