DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Hughes Technologies

SiteWhere

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

1994

2010

2020

Current release

1703

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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