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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. RavenDB vs. Rockset vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ravendb.net

rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ravendb.net/docs

docs.rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Hibernating Rhinos

Rockset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2010

2019

2013

Current release

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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.

Eventual 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, Cluster-wide transaction available

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

simple password-based access control

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