DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Milvus vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Milvus vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geode.apache.org

milvus.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geode.apache.org/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2008

2002

2019

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Market metrics

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