DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
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Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2007

2012

Current release

14.1, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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
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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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