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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	79.90
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#155	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Amazon

Initial release

2012

2008

Current release

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

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, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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 and roles

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