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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. HugeGraph

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGridGain Systems, Inc.Baidu
Initial release20122012200820072018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.3, July 2023GridGain 8.5.10.9
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)asynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes (replicated cache)yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)via hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per objectSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissions
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