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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. MySQL vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used open source RDBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.mysql.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunTDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20121995201920142019
Current release8.4.0, April 20243.0, August 20222.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyes, via alarm monitoringnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesno
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 regionACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DynamoDBMySQLTDengineTrafodionXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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