DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. OpenMLDB vs. Solr vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. OpenMLDB vs. Solr vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

solr.apache.org/resources.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

4 Paradigm Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2015

2020

2006

2012

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2024-2 February 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++, Java, Scala

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optimistic locking

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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