DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

1984

2014

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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