DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox 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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#173	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.fauna.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ObjectBox Limited

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

1991

2017

2011

Current release

5.7

4.0 (May 2024)

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

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

Multi-source replication

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

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)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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