DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. LeanXcale vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. LeanXcale vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hive.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

LeanXcale

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

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++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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