DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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