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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. GreptimeDB vs. TDengine

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbbigobject.iocachelot.iogreptime.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greptime.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Greptime Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20122015201520222019
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoPythonno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
nonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoSimple rights management via user accountsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DynamoDBBigObjectCachelot.ioGreptimeDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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