DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite

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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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

Konrad von Backstrom

SingleStore Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2008

Current release

0.8, December 2018

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 control via users, groups and roles

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