DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

objectbox.io

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

docs.objectbox.io

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

1979

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

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

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

depending on model

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

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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