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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.exasol.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonExasolOushuSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2012201620002014
Current release4.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePython
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes infoHadoop integrationHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
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 regionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
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)yesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based accessUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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