DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

jsqldb.org (offline)

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2005

2018

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

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

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

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

using RocksDB

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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