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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. Greenplum vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.comgreenplum.orgobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonExasolPivotal Software Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122000200520172014
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
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 regionACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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