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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. CockroachDB vs. Cubrid

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Cockroach Labs

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2008

Current release

5.0, August 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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