DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

maxdb.sap.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2010

1984

2006

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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