DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Baidu

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2022, May 2022

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

depending on model

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

Role based authorization

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