DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. RocksDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score80.91
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score15.13
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#91  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonClickhouse Inc.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release201220162013
Current releasev23.7.4.5-stable, August 20238.5.4, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes, when using the MergeTree engineno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
C++ API
Java 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
Scala info3rd party library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdano
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
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 regionnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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 rolesno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
» more
Speedb: A high performance RocksDB-compliant key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon DynamoDBClickHouseRocksDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Increased popularity for consuming DBMS services out of the cloud
2 October 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Solve DynamoDB size max exceeded problem : reduce size until 65%
7 September 2023, Medium

New MongoDB CTO is an AWS veteran
2 October 2023, The Stack

AWS previews Amplify 6 JavaScript library, hints at CodeWhisperer ...
2 October 2023, DevClass

Transforming Field Services With SaaS-Enabled LLM Models The ...
25 September 2023, Field Technologies Online

Exploring AWS Lambda: Serverless Computing Made Easy | by ...
26 September 2023, Medium

provided by Google News

ClickHouse Announces Launch of ClickPipes
26 September 2023, Datanami

Using Streaming Data Applications to Power Decision-Making
3 October 2023, Datanami

Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
28 September 2023, TechCrunch

Storage news ticker – September 27 – Blocks and Files
27 September 2023, Blocks and Files

Change Data Capture for Real-Time Access to Backend Databases
5 September 2023, The New Stack

provided by Google News

CockroachDB Launches Advanced Key-Value Store Pebble
23 December 2022, Analytics India Magazine

Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
31 August 2022, The Next Platform

Kicking Up AI, Data Analytics, And Networking A Notch Or Two
25 January 2023, The Next Platform

All 51 startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
22 March 2017, TechCrunch

Alluxio Bolsters Data Orchestration for Hybrid Cloud World
11 July 2019, Datanami

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

AWS Architect
Ironside Group, Remote

Application support and monitoring (AWS, Postgress)
DSMH LLC, Remote

Database Administrator
Epic Games, Cary, NC

Backend Software Engineer
Atlassian, San Francisco, CA

Data Engineer - Remote
CEDARS-SINAI, Los Angeles, CA

ClickHouse Open-Source C++ Developer
Altinity, Remote

Infrastructure SRE - Application Services - USDS
TikTok, Mountain View, CA

Senior Core QA Engineer- Remote
ClickHouse, Remote

Senior Analyst, Sales Strategy and Operations
ClickHouse, Remote

ClickHouse Solutions Support Engineer / DBA
Altinity, Remote

Sr. Engineer — .NET / Datadog
Intellibus, Silver Spring, MD

Backend Engineer (Databases)
Terraform Labs, Remote

Search Engineer - Back End
Brave Software Inc., Remote

Datadog Engineer
Intellibus, Remote

Search Engineer - Back End
Brave, San Francisco, CA

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Present your product here