DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Distributed Database based on Lucene

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

cratedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cratedb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Cloudflare

Crate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2013

2008

Current release

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

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions (Javascript)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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

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

rights management via user accounts

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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