DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tibero

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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 GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

brytlyt.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.heavy.ai

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Brytlyt

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2003

Current release

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

5.0, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++ and CUDA

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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.

yes

planned for next version

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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