DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rockset.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.rockset.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2009

2019

2017

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

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

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