DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignite.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Mireo

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2020

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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