DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

pouchdb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2012

1985

Current release

2.0

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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