DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Derby vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

db.apache.org/derby

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

origodb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1997

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.4-12

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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 can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

Based on Windows Authentication

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