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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Linter vs. SpaceTime

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

RDBMS for high security requirements

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

linter.ru

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

relex.ru

Mireo

Initial release

2007

2000

1990

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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