DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Altibase

Amazon

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2013

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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