DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#310	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sequoiadb.com

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

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

Developer

Amazon

SAP, Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Speedb

Initial release

2012

1987

2013

2020

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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