DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. LevelDB vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. LevelDB vs. SurrealDB 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

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

surrealdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

2022

2012

Current release

1.23, February 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple authentication-based access control

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