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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

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.

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

no

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

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

no

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