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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopentsdb.netrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonCognitectInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20122012199720112013
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 20208.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS LambdaBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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