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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigobject.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bigobject.io

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Baidu

Initial release

2019

2012

2015

2018

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

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

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Users, roles and permissions

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