DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is 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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2007

2020

Current release

1703

0.9.8.11, March 2016

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

C++ API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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