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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. PieCloudDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cachelot.io

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

OpenPie

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

2.1, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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