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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Newts

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonCNRSOpenNMS Group
Initial release2012201320142014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2noneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2nono

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