DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE

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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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2016

1991

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handler

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

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

yes

ACID

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

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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