DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

High performance Time Series DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

kx.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

code.kx.com

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

Developer

Amazon

IBM

InterSystems

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2009

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.6, May 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

with views

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

yes

rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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