DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

maxdb.sap.com

pouchdb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2015

1984

2012

2019

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes

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