DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2004

2008

Current release

15585

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes, details here

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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