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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. QuestDB vs. Rockset

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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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

objectbox.io

questdb.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.objectbox.io

questdb.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

ObjectBox Limited

QuestDB Technology Inc

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

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

Eventual 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

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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