DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

Spatial extension of H2

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

CNRS

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

1993

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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