DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. Netezza vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. Netezza vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2011

Current release

GBase 8a

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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