DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FaunaDB vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FaunaDB vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Strongly consistent database capable of global horizontal scale with a focus on operational simplicity

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing info

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

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	61.63
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#180	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#89	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#315	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#309	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

www.irondb.io

stssoft.com/products/stsdb-4-0

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com/documentation

www.irondb.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2011

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source info

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support info

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning info

consistent hashing

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Masterless

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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 info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts info

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

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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