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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. Graph Engine vs. RavenDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.graphengine.ioravendb.nettempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAxibase CorporationMicrosoftHibernating RhinosTempoIQ
Initial release20072013201020102012
Current release155855.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux.NETLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Authorization levels configured per client per databasesimple authentication-based access control

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