DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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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.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

cubrid.org/manuals

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Initial release

2012

2006

2008

2023

2015

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

11.0, January 2021

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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