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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. DuckDB vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. DuckDB vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSWidely used open source RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score77.72
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score5.96
Rank#63  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdb.apache.org/­derbyduckdb.orgwww.mysql.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlduckdb.org/­docsdev.mysql.com/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20121997201819952014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20230.10, February 20248.3.0, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
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 regionACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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