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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. SiriDB vs. Tigris

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#359	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cassandra.apache.org

siridb.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.siridb.com

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cesbit

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2008

2017

2022

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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