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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ehcache vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ehcache.org

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ehcache.org/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2009

2017

2013

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

none

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

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Licensing and pricing models

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