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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. ITTIA vs. PieCloudDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#269	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#282	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#326	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

ITTIA L.L.C.

OpenPie

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2007

2018

Current release

8.7

2.1, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

Immediate 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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Database file passwords

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Role-based access control

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