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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. Hypertable vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2017

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor on file system level

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Planned for future releases

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