DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dolt vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dolt vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolthub.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

DoltHub Inc

CNRS

Rockset

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2019

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

based on H2

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

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