DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. LevelDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. LevelDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/leveldb

origodb.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

origodb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Google

Robert Friberg et al

SADAS s.r.l.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

2006

2005

Current release

1.23, February 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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