DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. SAP IQ vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. SAP IQ vs. SurrealDB

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

phoenix.apache.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2022

Current release

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

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

v1.5.0, May 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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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