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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgmemgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20072006201420032017
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.1.12, February 20171.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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 automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using RAFT
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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions
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