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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographrealm.iosurrealdb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmrealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SurrealDB LtdByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20072018201420222016
Current release2.3, January 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
C++ API
Java 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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACIDno
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 realmyes
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, based on authentication and database rulesno

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