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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. TerminusDB

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gbase.cn

memgraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Memgraph Ltd

OpenNMS Group

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

2014

2018

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

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript
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

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

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