DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used in-process key-value store

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SenX

Initial release

2012

1984

1994

1984

2015

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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