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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. OceanBase vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

en.oceanbase.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Amazon

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2010

2020

2015

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

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

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.

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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