DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. LevelDB vs. TerarkDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. LevelDB vs. TerarkDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

Google

ByteDance, originally Terark

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2007

2011

2016

Current release

11.0, June 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Java API

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Access rights for users and roles

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