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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hypertable vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hypertable vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbkylin.apache.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbkylin.apache.org/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncHypertable Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20192007201520092010
Current release3.1.0, July 20200.9.8.11, March 20163.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava, Javascript
TriggersnononoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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