DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2004

2014

2018

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Journaling Streams

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

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

yes

Role-based access control

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