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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	64.75
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.12
Rank	#154	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

Developer

Amazon

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

Current release

2.2.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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)

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

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

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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