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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. QuestDB vs. Stardog

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 StorageA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasequestdb.iowww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9questdb.io/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QuestDB Technology IncStardog-Union
Initial release20122012199120142010
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.77.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL with time-series extensionsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
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 in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
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 regionnoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
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 sourceAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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