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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, Sybase

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

1987

2017

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

16.0

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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