DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Titan vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Titan vs. YottaDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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