DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rockset.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2019

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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