DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/spanner

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

Developer

Amazon

Google

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on 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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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