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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. Dgraph vs. Memgraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.00
Rank#102  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comdgraph.iomemgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docsmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20072014201020162017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingyesSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers, roles and permissions
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