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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VelocityDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2016

1984

2011

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23.3, December 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

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

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

yes

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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