DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

origodb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

origodb.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2007

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

1987

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

.Net

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

configurable

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Write ahead log

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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