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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

duckdb.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

duckdb.org/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2013

1994

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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