DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. WakandaDB

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigobject.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

victoriametrics.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.bigobject.io

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

STS Soft SC

VictoriaMetrics

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2007

2015

2011

2018

2012

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.91, May 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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