DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. FeatureBase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. FeatureBase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

pinot.apache.org

www.featurebase.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.featurebase.com

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Percona

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2008

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2022, May 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

yes

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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