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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolthub.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

Developer

Amazon

DoltHub Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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