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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. NCache vs. OrientDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

orientdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Alachisoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2005

2010

2003

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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.

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, Javascript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

planned for next version

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)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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