DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. RRDtool vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. RRDtool vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/google/leveldb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon

Google

Tobias Oetiker

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2011

1999

2013

Current release

1.23, February 2021

1.8.0, 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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