DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. openGemini vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. openGemini vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.datomic.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

2022

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.1, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

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

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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