DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/spanner

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

2017

1999

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on 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

ACID

yes

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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