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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Qdrant vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	76.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.03
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Qdrant

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2021

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Collection-level replication

yes, each node contains all data

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, tunable 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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Key-based authentication

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Recent citations in the news

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