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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Immudb vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.kinetica.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.immudb.io

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon

Codenotary

Kinetica

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2020

2012

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

optimistic locking

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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