DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Brytlyt vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Brytlyt vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tibero

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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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

brytlyt.io

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.brytlyt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2007

2016

2013

2003

Current release

5.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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