DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Ignite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Ignite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

ignite.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2007

2016

2015

2011

Current release

1703

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

LDAP bind authentication

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Based on Windows Authentication

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