DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HugeGraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HugeGraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

geospock.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

Baidu

Percona

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

0.9

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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 can be defined per table

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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