DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.esgyn.cn

geospock.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Elastic

Esgyn

GeoSpock

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2009

Current release

8.6, January 2023

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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