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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	83.88
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#264	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

Developer

Amazon

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2012

1999

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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