DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kuzu vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kuzu vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kuzudb.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.kuzudb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2022

2013

2011

2017

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

yes

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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)

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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