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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF 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	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

terminusdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

spotify.github.io/heroic

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

DataChemist Ltd.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2018

1985

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

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

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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