DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. Trino

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geospock.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

STS Soft SC

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2009

2011

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

range based

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

depending on connected data-source

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomic single-document operations

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

SQL standard access control

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