DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.exasol.com

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2010

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, event driven architecture

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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