DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

In-memory caching system

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

cachelot.io

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

Cloudflare

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2006

2015

2018

1994

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal 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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Memcached protocol

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

none

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

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)

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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