DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1984

2007

2022

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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