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

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.featurebase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.featurebase.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201720102011
Current release2022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageGoErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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