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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridDB vs. STSdb vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

griddb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.griddb.net

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon

Toshiba Corporation

STS Soft SC

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

2019

Current release

5.1, August 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

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 at container level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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