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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RavenDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

ravendb.net

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

ravendb.net/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Percona

Hibernating Rhinos

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

1984

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.4, July 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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