DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Gigaspaces Technologies

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2000

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

15.5, September 2020

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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