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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score77.57
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122014201220171992
Current release4.0.5, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.online/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
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 regionnooptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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