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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FatDB vs. RDFox

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Roles, resources, and access types

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