DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan vs. Trino

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.snowflake.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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