DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.keydb.dev

docs.kinetica.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Kinetica

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2019

2012

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

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

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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)

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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