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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. Valentina Server vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Object-relational database and reports server

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

couchdb.apache.org

www.valentina-db.net

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Paradigma Software

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

1999

2015

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: 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.

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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