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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 ScioreA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release200720002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2022
Current release4.9.0, July 202310 R1, October 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoTDB TransactionsACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access control via Jena Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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