DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. NCache 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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Alachisoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

2005

2020

Current release

1703

5.3.3, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

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#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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