DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. MaxDB vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. MaxDB vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

maxdb.sap.com

neo4j.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

neo4j.com/docs

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Neo4j, Inc.

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

1984

2007

2006

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

5.19, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handler

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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