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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.memcached.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122003200020142019
Current release1.6.27, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCClojure
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 regionnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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