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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsGoogleCNRS
Initial release20072018201520132009
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2no

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