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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JaguarDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.jaguardb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2013

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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