DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Coveo vs. GBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Coveo vs. GBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.coveo.com

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.coveo.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Coveo

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2004

2011

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

23.3, December 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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