DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

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Score	73.00
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.42
Rank	#105	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

1994

2017

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate 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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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