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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Galaxybase vs. HarperDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

galaxybase.com

www.harperdb.io

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

HarperDB

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

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 execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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)

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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