DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB vs. GridGain

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Name

Description

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

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.databricks.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.databricks.com

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Databricks

DolphinDB, Inc

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2007

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Python
R
Scala

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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)

Administrators, Users, Groups

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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