DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. atoti vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Newts

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atoti.io

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

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

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.atoti.io

docs.intersystems.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

1997

2019

2014

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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 REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

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