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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. OpenQM vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. OpenQM vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 visualizationQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAxibase CorporationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007201319932022
Current release155853.4-12v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelyes, based on authentication and database rules

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