DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

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

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

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#203	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

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