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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Ignite vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org

ignite.apache.org

www.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

ScyllaDB

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2001

2015

1987

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

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

in-memory tables

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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