DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb

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Name

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

GridGain Systems, Inc.

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2012

2007

2009

Current release

2.1, December 2018

GridGain 8.5.1

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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