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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Sparka GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonKineticaApache Software FoundationSplice MachineSQream Technologies
Initial release20122012201420142017
Current release7.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoJavauser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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