DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2012

2004

2014

2022

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

yes

Users and Roles

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