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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score77.57
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014STS Soft SC
Initial release20122017200520102011
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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