DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.09
Rank	#178	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.geomesa.org

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

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

CCRi and others

Percona

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2014

2008

2020

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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