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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	80.91
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

User concepts

Access control

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

SQL standard access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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