DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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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	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

pouchdb.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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