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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hive vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hive.apache.org

machbase.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

machbase.com/dbms

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

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
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual 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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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