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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. etcd vs. RisingWave

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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 reliable key-value store

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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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	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2012

2016

2022

Current release

3.4, August 2019

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

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

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 Roles

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