DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. etcd vs. Fauna vs. Netezza vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. etcd vs. Fauna vs. Netezza vs. STSdb

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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.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	7.20
Rank	#46	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	6.70
Rank	#52	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

IBM

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2000

2011

Current release

3.4, August 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

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.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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