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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory caching systemSpatial extension of H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcachelot.iowww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonCNRSRockset
Initial release20122015201320142019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnodynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIMemcached protocolJavaScript APIHTTP REST
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
JavaJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on H2noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 regionnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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)noyes infobased on H2noAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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