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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score79.30
Rank#15  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score18.77
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#274  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score6.60
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.42
Rank#149  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcouchdb.apache.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.com/­docsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonClickhouse Inc.CloudflareApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release20122016201820052017
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 20243.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingkey based and customSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 regionnonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control

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