DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atoti.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.atoti.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Transact SQL

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

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)

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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