DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geospock.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

1993

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4-12

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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, via Full Spark Integration

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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