DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

milvus.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

yes

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

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

yes

based on H2

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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