DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Search engine

Key-value store

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.marklogic.com

sphinxsearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.marklogic.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MarkLogic Corp.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

1991

2001

2020

Current release

5.7

11.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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