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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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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 distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

kylin.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

kylin.apache.org/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

ByteDance, originally Terark

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2007

2015

2016

1999

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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