DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Lovefield

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store

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	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.eventstore.com

www.featurebase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

developers.eventstore.com

docs.featurebase.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Event Store Limited

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

2017

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

21.2, February 2021

2022, May 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
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

Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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

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