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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score77.72
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#168  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.86
Rank#90  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#7  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcubrid.org/­manualsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsGoogle
Initial release20122008200820122015
Current release11.0, January 20217.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lesshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCin-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
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++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
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 regionACIDACIDnoAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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