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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

by Federation

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

Planned for future releases

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