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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. DuckDB vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbduckdb.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbduckdb.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonDwayne Richard HippYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20122018201420002001
Current release1.0.0, June 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptCC
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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