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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	76.49
Rank	#15	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	7.19
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#361	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2005

2011

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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 VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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