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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Warp 10

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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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series 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	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Spotify

SenX

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

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

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)

Role-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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