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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score70.06
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonExasolChris DavisCNRSSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122000200620132014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
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 regionACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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-standardnoyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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