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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic

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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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2009

2014

Current release

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

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

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

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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