DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Hive vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#121	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

hive.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

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

Developer

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Percona

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2008

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual 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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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