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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2015

1992

2017

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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 and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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