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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atoti.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.atoti.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2011

2015

1998

Current release

23.3, December 2023

1.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

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 and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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