DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Bangdb vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bangdb.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

siridb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datastax.com

docs.siridb.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

DataStax

Cesbit

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2011

2017

1999

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

6.8, April 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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