DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. dBASE vs. Solr vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. dBASE vs. Solr vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org

www.dbase.com

solr.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2018

1979

2006

1998

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.6.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java plugins

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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