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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

arangodb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.arangodb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.nuodb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

ArangoDB Inc.

CNRS

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

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

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Journaling Streams

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

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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