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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.oushu.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Oushu

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2007

2013

2004

Current release

15585

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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