DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

2001

2016

2009

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux
OS X

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Transact SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes, using Riak Security

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