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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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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	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

1983

host version

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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