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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcloud.google.com/­bigqueryspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonGoogleApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122010201420001987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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