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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.mcobject.comjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMcObjectLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122008200120172009
Current release7.2.4, September 20128.2, 20210.6.3, February 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesErlang
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdano infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby defining eventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning / shardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes, using Riak Security
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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