DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Realm vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Realm vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

opennms.github.io/newts

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

InterSystems

OpenNMS Group

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2015

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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