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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java 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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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