DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. eXtremeDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.enterprisedb.com

www.mcobject.com

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon

EnterpriseDB

McObject

Kinetica

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

2012

1993

Current release

14, December 2021

8.2, 2021

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by defining events

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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