DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	71.85
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.40
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.heavy.ai

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2016

2022

Current release

5.10, January 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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