DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dolphindb.com

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Exasol

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

2000

2007

1987

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

14.1, August 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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