DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Coveo vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Coveo vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

www.coveo.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

docs.coveo.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Coveo

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2018

Current release

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

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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