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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hbase.apache.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Amazon

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2016

2006

2008

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles

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