DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InfluxDB vs. Netezza vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InfluxDB vs. Netezza vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

brytlyt.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

IBM

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2000

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

included in appliance

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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