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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ehcache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122009201020112012
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCacheRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 regionyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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