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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigobject.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bigobject.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2019

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

String, Number, Boolean

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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