DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. WakandaDB

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Name

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

docs.objectbox.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2015

2012

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

3.0.0, September 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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