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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdgraph.iowww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122016200420102013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no infoPlanned for future releasesyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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