DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.hawkular.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2012

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

simple authentication-based access control

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