DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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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	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

manticoresearch.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

Manticore Software

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2007

2017

2008

2005

Current release

11.0, June 2024

6.0, February 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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