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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 assetsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.bigchaindb.commaxdb.sap.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hughes TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122016198419942022
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20244.4, October 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++CRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 regionACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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