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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographpinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotify
Initial release20122018201520162014
Current release2.3, January 20211.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Kerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesyes

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