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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hypertable vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiriDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2009

2019

2017

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

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.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

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 on file system level

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

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

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)

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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