DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. JanusGraph vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. JanusGraph vs. Memgraph

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Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

basex.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

janusgraph.org

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.basex.org

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.janusgraph.org

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

Elastic

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2007

2010

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

8.6, January 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users, roles and permissions

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