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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB

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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.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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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	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

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