DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. EsgynDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

High performance Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

arcadedb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

kx.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

code.kx.com

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

Esgyn

InterSystems

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Initial release

2012

2021

2015

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

Current release

September 2021

2023.3, June 2023

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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