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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

terminusdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2018

1985

Current release

V12

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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

configurable

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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