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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Derby vs. TDengine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS and big data platformA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.citusdata.comdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.citusdata.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos DataTencent
Initial release20122010199720192013
Current release8.1, December 201810.17.1.0, November 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Proceduresnoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
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 regionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Amazon DynamoDBCitusDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBTDengineTDSQL for MySQL
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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