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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Well established RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hbase.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Actian Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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