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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

galaxybase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2015

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

none

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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)

Role-based access control

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

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