DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gigaspaces.com

machbase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

machbase.com/dbms

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Machbase

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2000

2013

1992

Current release

15.5, September 2020

V8.0, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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