DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Immudb vs. JanusGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Immudb vs. JanusGraph

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.immudb.io

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Codenotary

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

host version

2020

2017

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1.2.3, April 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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