DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RavenDB

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2015

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

5.4, July 2022

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

using Azure authentication

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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