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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperAmazonGooglequasardbSAP
Initial release20122010201320092010
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnonoSQLScript, R
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoconsistent hashingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 regionno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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