DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. HarperDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. HarperDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

dgraph.io

www.harperdb.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

dgraph.io/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

HarperDB

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

2017

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.1, August 2021

2023.3, June 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

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

dynamic schema

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

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

yes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

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

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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