DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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 native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2007

2005

2011

2012

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

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 can be defined per database

yes

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