DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. OpenQM vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. OpenQM vs. UniData,UniVerse 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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Rocket Software

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2000

1993

1985

2015

Current release

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license 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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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