DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.citusdata.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

galaxybase.com

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.citusdata.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2010

1979

2017

2011

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V3, October 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

across SQL and NoSQL

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Role-based access control

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