DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Cassandra vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Cassandra vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

arcadedb.com

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.arcadedb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2021

2008

2014

2013

Current release

September 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

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