DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB 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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

1997

2014

2018

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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