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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsHarperDB
Initial release20122012201220172013
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.1, August 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supporteddynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and Strings
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnonoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts
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