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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. EJDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Newts

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.leanxcale.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Softmotions

LeanXcale

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2007

2016

2012

2015

2014

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

in-process shared library

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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)

LDAP bind authentication

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