DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Riak KV vs. Solr vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Riak KV vs. Solr vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

solr.apache.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datastax.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Amazon

DataStax

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2011

2009

2006

2019

Current release

6.8, April 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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