DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Pinecone

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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.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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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	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blazegraph.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

Percona

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2006

2008

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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.

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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