DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

quasar.ai

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

1994

2009

2022

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

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)

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

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

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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