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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQream DB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQream DB vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 ScioreScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platforma GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbrytlyt.iocloud.google.com/­datastoresqream.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.brytlyt.iocloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.sqream.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBrytlytGoogleSQream TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20072016200820172019
Current release5.0, August 20232022.1.6, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (GQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLusing Google App Engineuser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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