DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Infobright vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

opennms.github.io/newts

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2015

2009

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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