DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. H2GIS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. H2GIS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

CNRS

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2018

2023

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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