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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. etcd vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

A distributed reliable key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cachelot.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

Amazon

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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