DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

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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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational 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	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.dolphindb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

2018

1991

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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