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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. CrateDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Dolt vs. Galaxybase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store

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

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cratedb.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

galaxybase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cratedb.com/docs

docs.datastax.com

docs.dolthub.com

Developer

Amazon

Crate

DataStax

DoltHub Inc

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

2018

2017

Current release

6.8, April 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Datastax Astra DB: Astra DB simplifies cloud-native Cassandra application development for your apps, microservices and functions. Deploy in minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and have it managed for you by the experts, with serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing.

Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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