DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Qdrant vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Qdrant vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Qdrant

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

2021

2016

Current release

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Key-based authentication

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