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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#101	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.97
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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