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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonIBMSAP infoformerly Sybaseinformationpartners gmbhSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122000199220152014
Current release17, July 20151.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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