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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. InfluxDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Solr

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.leanxcale.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsLeanXcaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122012201320152006
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyes infothrough Apache DerbySolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava plugins
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 regionnonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsyes
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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