DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Sequoiadb

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2007

2014

2017

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

JavaScript

Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual 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 collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

Using Apache Lucene

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)

simple password-based access control

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