DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. HarperDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. HarperDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

www.harperdb.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

HarperDB

InterSystems

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2018

2007

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

2023.3, June 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

optionally

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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