DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

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

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2007

1987

2009

Current release

14.1, August 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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 and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

optional

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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