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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational 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
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Mireo
Initial release20122015200020142020
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infoincluded in appliancehostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
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 nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 regionnoACIDACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes

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