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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. QuestDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trino

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbquestdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlintrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbquestdb.io/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20122014201420092012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultnonodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
TinkerPop 3JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Groovy
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS LambdaJavaScriptnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)with Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistencynonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
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 regionMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID for single-table writesnodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionaldepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelnoSQL standard access control
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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