DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

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Trend Chart

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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2006

2010

2014

2012

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal 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

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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