DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. StarRocks vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. StarRocks vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

www.starrocks.io

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

docs.tdengine.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2020

2019

2018

Current release

2.5.3, March 2023

3.0, August 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Journaling Streams

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

yes

based on H2

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

Role-based access control

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