DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2001

2019

1992

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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