DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. LeanXcale vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. LeanXcale vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

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

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.leanxcale.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon

DGraph Labs

LeanXcale

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2014

2011

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

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

ACID

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)

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