DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

galaxybase.com

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Percona

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2017

2008

2022

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

8.0.36-28, 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

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

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)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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