DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2010

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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)

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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