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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. GridGain vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. GridGain vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory caching systemGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgnitePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcachelot.iowww.gridgain.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201520072012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIMemcached protocolHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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 regionnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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