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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databricks vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics

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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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	84.24
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.databricks.com

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.databricks.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Amazon

Databricks

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Python
R
Scala

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

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