DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rocksdb.org

splicemachine.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.xtdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Splice Machine

Juxt Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2019

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.1, March 2021

1.19, September 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

based on RocksDB

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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