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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Stardog

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score77.72
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score2.03
Rank#136  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2database.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9techfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonThomas MuellerRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Stardog-Union
Initial release20122005199120142010
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.77.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalnoyes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
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 regionACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights for users and roles

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