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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

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

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

Amazon

Initial release

2016

2012

Current release

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

authentication via encrypted signatures

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

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