DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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