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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Blueflood vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

blueflood.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2017

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

multiple readers, single writer

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

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