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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. MarkLogic

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store info

as of version 7
Search engine

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Score	64.75
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	12.22
Rank	#41	Overall
	#7	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

Amazon

MarkLogic Corp.

Initial release

2012

2001

Current release

9.0, 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free info

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API info

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

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)

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts info

Access control

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

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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