DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. PouchDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. PouchDB 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

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

pouchdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

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

C, C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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.

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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