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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.mcobject.com

hbase.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hbase.apache.org/book.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon

McObject

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2001

2008

2017

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Immediate Consistency or 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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