DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. Immudb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. Immudb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object Oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	70.95
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#1	Object Oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#299	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Amazon

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Codenotary

Initial release

2012

2007

2020

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

ACID

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)

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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