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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.netwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAmazonRisingWave LabsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122014200520222000
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.2, September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCRustC
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
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 regionno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers and Rolesno

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