DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Kingbase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Kingbase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RDF4J

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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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Percona

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2017

1999

2008

2004

Current release

2022, May 2022

V8.0, August 2021

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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