DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak TS vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak TS vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

machbase.com

www.tarantool.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

machbase.com/dbms

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Machbase

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2008

1985

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

optional

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Open binary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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