DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. NCache vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. NCache vs. Stardog

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2008

1991

2005

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

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