DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cassandra vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cassandra vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cassandra.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2013

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic single-row operations

Document is locked during a transaction

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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