DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.mcobject.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

McObject

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2016

2001

2016

2010

Current release

1703

8.2, 2021

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

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

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

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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