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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. OpenQM

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

memgraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

OpenNMS Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

1993

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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