DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. ReductStore

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Amazon

Baidu

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2007

2023

Current release

0.9

V0.10.20, January 2018

14.1, August 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

Users, roles and permissions

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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