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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.eventstore.com

origodb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.eventstore.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Event Store Limited

Robert Friberg et al

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

depending on model

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Role based authorization

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