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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Spotify

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2003

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Multi-source replication
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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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