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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

OpenPie

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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