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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 virtualizationData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarockset.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.rockset.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsIBMRocksetSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122018200020192014
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infoincluded in appliancehostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingAutomatic shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Kerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnonoyes
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 regionACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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