DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Geode vs. H2GIS vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Geode vs. H2GIS vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Spatial extension of H2

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geode.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

CNRS

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2002

2013

2015

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

based on H2

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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