DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. HugeGraph vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. HugeGraph vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

In-memory caching system

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cachelot.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2018

2012

Current release

0.9

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

yes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users, roles and permissions

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