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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Blueflood vs. Databend vs. SQLite

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

blueflood.io

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.databend.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Rackspace

Databend Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

2013

2021

2000

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

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