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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. TypeDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.gridgain.com

typedb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

typedb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Vaticle

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2007

2016

1999

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.28.3, June 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes

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)

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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