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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. GridGain vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.gridgain.comjanusgraph.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012200720172012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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