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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlhyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedHyprcubd, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release200720142009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnono
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 indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
gRPC (https)JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessnoyes, using Riak Security

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