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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hive

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Name

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.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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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	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/datastore

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

1997

2008

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

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

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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