DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

blueflood.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Elastic

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2012

2007

2013

2010

1979

Current release

11.0, June 2024

8.6, January 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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