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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArangoDB vs. Blazegraph vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbarangodb.comblazegraph.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.arangodb.comwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.voltdb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAmazonArangoDB Inc.BlazegraphVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2007201220062010
Current release3.11.5, November 20232.1.5, March 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes infoRDF literal typesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Users and roles with access to stored procedures
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Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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