DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

RDF store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.77
Rank	#222	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

blazegraph.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Blazegraph

FoundationDB

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2000

2006

2013

2004

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

6.2.28, November 2020

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

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
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

some layers support typing

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

in SQL-layer only

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

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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