DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

origodb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

origodb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

.Net

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Based on Windows Authentication

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