DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2

planetscale.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

planetscale.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon

IBM

PlanetScale

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2020

2009

2020

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

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

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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