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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenSearch

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigobject.ioboilerbay.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.bigobject.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Amazon Web Services
Initial release2012201520022021
Current release4.02.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
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 regionnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono
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Amazon DynamoDBBigObjectInfinityDBOpenSearch
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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