DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kinetica vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Kinetica vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.kinetica.com

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.kinetica.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Kinetica

SADAS s.r.l.

SiteWhere

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2006

2010

2001

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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