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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbarangodb.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.arangodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.scylladb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAmazonArangoDB Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesScyllaDB
Initial release20122012200820092015
Current release3.11.5, November 20237.2.4, September 20123.2.0, December 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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ArangoDB Cloud –The Managed Cloud Service of ArangoDB. Provides fully managed, and monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. Get started for free and continue for as little as $0,21/hour.Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaS
Implementation languageC++C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBCHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Java
PHP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnoErlangyes, Lua
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)no infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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