DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FatDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FatDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. STSdb vs. YDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Percona

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2008

2011

2019

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

Active-passive shard 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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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