DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

blazegraph.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

wiki.blazegraph.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Blazegraph

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2006

2004

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

yes

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