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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

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

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	57.82
Rank	#18	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.80
Rank	#85	Overall
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

Amazon

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2012

1998

Current release

8.2, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source info

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
OLE DB
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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 info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

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

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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