DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB

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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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.keydb.dev

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

1999

2004

Current release

1703

V8.0, August 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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