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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Netezza vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Netezza vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational 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
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonMarkLogic Corp.IBMOracleSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122001200020112014
Current release11.0, December 202224.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 regionACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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