DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore

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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)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.openpie.com

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

Microsoft

OpenPie

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

1989

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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