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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. RDFox vs. StarRocks

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.RackspaceOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20072015201320172020
Current release6.0, Septermber 20223.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanouser defined functions
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrareplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoRoles, resources, and access typesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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