DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

terminusdb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1994

2018

2010

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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