DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrientDB

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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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

IBM

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.0

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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