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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Geode vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Geode vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesWell established RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeode.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Actian CorporationFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2012201320021974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013
Current release1.1, February 201711.2, May 20228.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatoryes
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
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 regionyesyes, on a single nodeACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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