DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. RocksDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

spotify.github.io/heroic

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Baidu

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2018

2013

Current release

0.9

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

yes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

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