DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2007

2016

2009

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Active-passive shard replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

multiple readers, single writer

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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