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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.janusgraph.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

host version

2017

2015

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

12.1, October 2016

1.0.0, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

using Azure authentication

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