DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Greenplum vs. Hazelcast vs. IRONdb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

greenplum.org

hazelcast.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.greenplum.org

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hazelcast

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

2008

2017

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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