DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

Initial release

2012

2005

1999

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

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

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