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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.snowflake.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonExasolRisingWave LabsSnowflake Computing Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122000202220142022
Current release1.2, September 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageRustRust
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
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 datayesyesyesyes
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-standardUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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