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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Columnar relational DBMS designed to handle modern analytic workloads, enabling fast query performance

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	68.89
Rank	#17	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	20.95
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.vertica.com/docs/10.0.x/HTML/Content/Home.htm

Developer

Amazon

Vertica / Micro Focus

prior to that Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2012

2005

Current release

Vertica 10.0 Software, May 2020
Vertica for SQL on Hadoop 10.0 Software, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

Available on all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Unstructured data can be stored in specific Flex-Tables

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

The concept of 'projections' can be used instead of indexes.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

nearly full SQL99 without support for indexes and triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Segmentation, Projection Segmentation, Hash Segmentation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Cluster level and Object level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Vertica Connector for Hadoop

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Cost-based models and subscription-based models are available
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