DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. OpenQM vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. OpenQM vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.tarantool.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Rocket Software

Yanza

Initial release

2012

1993

2008

1985

2015

Current release

3.4-12

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

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 and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

optional

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Source-replica replication

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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