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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigobject.iogreenplum.orgorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201520052009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesdepending on model
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 regionnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization

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