DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Warp 10 vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Warp 10 vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.43
Rank	#148	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.53
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.36
Rank	#107	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.warp10.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.fauna.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

SenX

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2015

2017

Current release

V12

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

based on HBase

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

yes

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