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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. Databend vs. H2GIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

arcadedb.com

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.h2gis.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.databend.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

Databend Labs

CNRS

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2021

2013

Current release

September 2021

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

Source-replica replication

none

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

based on H2

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