DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datomic.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Circonus LLC.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2017

1992

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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