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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Graphite vs. Qdrant vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.ioqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHChris DavisQdrantSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072007200620212011
Current release11.0, June 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonRustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoKey-based authenticationno

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