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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignite.apache.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2015

2002

2019

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

4.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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