DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Tarantool vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Tarantool 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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.raima.com

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Raima Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2012

2008

1984

2008

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

15, June 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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