DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.progress.com/openedge

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.lmdb.tech/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Symas

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2000

2011

1984

2017

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9.32, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

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

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

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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