DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rethinkdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2009

2006

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC based

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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