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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

ignite.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

kairosdb.github.io

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2013

2005

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.2.2, November 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

ACID

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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