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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Firebolt vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.firebolt.iowww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.firebolt.iodocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonFirebolt Analytics Inc.KineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalParadigma Software
Initial release20122020201220031999
Current release7.1, August 20211.6.27, May 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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