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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EJDB vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

1999

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPLv2

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 Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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