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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2014

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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