DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#155	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/google/leveldb

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

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

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

GridGain Systems, Inc.

InterSystems

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2007

1997

2011

2017

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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