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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbblueflood.ioboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2012201320022014
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
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 regionnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonono

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