DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hazelcast vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hazelcast vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

hazelcast.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Hazelcast

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2009

2020

Current release

1703

5.3.6, November 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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