DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

origodb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

origodb.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon

Hughes Technologies

IBM

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1994

2000

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

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