DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Cubrid vs. ObjectBox

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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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

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

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2006

2008

2017

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

11.0, January 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

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

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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 native API

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++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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