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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted in-memory data gridOpen Source Time Series DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational 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
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbhazelcast.comsiridb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.siridb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonHazelcastCesbitSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release20122008201720102017
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes infoEventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated Mapyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate 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 regionone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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