DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2013

1998

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

1.2.2, November 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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