DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

arangodb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.enterprisedb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.arangodb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

ArangoDB Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2016

2005

1998

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

14, December 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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