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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 virtualizationA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
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
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072018201420092011
Current release2.3, January 20213.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 automaticallynoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C 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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
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 rolesyesyes, using Riak Securityno

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