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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigobject.iocachelot.iowww.kingbase.com.cnobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20122015201519992017
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
nonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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