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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

8Kdata

Initial release

2019

2012

2007

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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