DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

ravendb.net

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kairosdb.github.io

qdrant.tech/documentation

ravendb.net/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Qdrant

Hibernating Rhinos

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

2021

2010

1987

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

5.4, July 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

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)

simple password-based access control

Key-based authentication

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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