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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Event StoreSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.eventstore.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdevelopers.eventstore.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAmazonEvent Store LimitedMicrosoftSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2012201220151994
Current release21.2, February 2021V116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
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 regionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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