DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Amazon

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2005

1984

2015

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

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