DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hazelcast vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Hazelcast vs. TigerGraph

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Name

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Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

hazelcast.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Hazelcast

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

Role-based access control

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