DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.h2gis.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

CNRS

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2018

2009

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

based on H2

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

optional

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)

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on H2

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