DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Faircom DB vs. Galaxybase vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Faircom DB vs. Galaxybase vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.citusdata.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

galaxybase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.citusdata.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

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

Baidu

Initial release

2012

2010

1979

2017

2018

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V12, November 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Go
Java
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined procedures and functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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