DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Well established RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.actian.com/ingres

kairosdb.github.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Actian Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2010

Current release

2.0

11.2, May 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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