DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used in-process key-value store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

geospock.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

GeoSpock

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2010

Current release

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

2.0, September 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

only for the SQL API

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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