DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Stardog vs. TimescaleDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Stardog vs. TimescaleDB vs. YDB

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Name

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Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.stardog.com

www.timescale.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.stardog.com

docs.timescale.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Stardog-Union

Timescale

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2017

2019

Current release

1703

7.3.0, May 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex 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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

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

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Active-passive shard 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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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