DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

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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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

SenX

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

2011

2015

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

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

simple password-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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