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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InfluxDB vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2007

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

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

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Database file passwords

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