DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. JSqlDb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. JSqlDb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2014

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

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

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