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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rockset.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.rockset.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Chris Davis

Rockset

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2006

2019

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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 and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

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