DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. ObjectBox

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.dolphindb.com

fauna.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.fauna.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

DolphinDB, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

2014

2017

Current release

1703

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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 depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Administrators, Users, Groups

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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16 May 2024

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23 April 2024

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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