DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

geospock.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.atoti.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2013

1989

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Automatic sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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