DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

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

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

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.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

FoundationDB

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2006

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

6.2.28, November 2020

2.7.6, April 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 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

some layers support typing

Numeric data and Strings

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

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

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

in SQL-layer only

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

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)

simple rights management via user accounts

Role based authorization

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