DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. gStore vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. gStore vs. SQream DB

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

en.gstore.cn

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2008

2016

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

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

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

ACID

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.

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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