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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. Machbase Neo vs. PieCloudDB

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational 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	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.datomic.com

machbase.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.datomic.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Machbase

OpenPie

Initial release

2012

2013

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

V8.0, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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