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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion

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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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

1993

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

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