DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

An embedded key-value store for Go.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

phoenix.apache.org

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2013

2006

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access control via Jena Security

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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