DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere vs. Warp 10

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

milvus.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

SiteWhere

SenX

Initial release

2012

2009

2019

2010

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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