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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	68.41
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.28
Rank	#81	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

The Linux Foundation info

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2009

Current release

2.4.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C# info

community-supported driver
C++ info

community-supported driver
Clojure info

community-supported driver
Dart info

community-supported driver
Erlang info

community-supported driver
Go info

community-supported driver
Haskell info

community-supported driver
Java info

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js) info

official driver
Lisp info

community-supported driver
Lua info

community-supported driver
Objective-C info

community-supported driver
Perl info

community-supported driver
PHP info

community-supported driver
Python info

official driver
Ruby info

official driver
Scala info

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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 info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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