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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open Source Time Series DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbrethinkdb.comrocksdb.orgsiridb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbrethinkdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.siridb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Facebook, Inc.CesbitSplice Machine
Initial release20122009201320172014
Current release2.4.1, August 20209.2.1, May 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoJava
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS LambdaClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionAtomic single-document operationsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousers and table-level permissionsnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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