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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenMLDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

openmldb.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Circonus LLC.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2020

1994

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

2024-2 February 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license 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

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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