DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ehcache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2009

2016

1991

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.10, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

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