DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

pouchdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2017

2011

2012

1998

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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