DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.graphengine.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2010

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

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)

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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