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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Interbase vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.memcached.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAmazonEmbarcaderoDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20121984200320012019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191.6.25, March 20243.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoyes
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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