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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Citus vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. RisingWave

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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 hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS for high security requirementsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroiclinter.ruwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.citusdata.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyrelex.ruRisingWave Labs
Initial release20072010201419902022
Current release8.1, December 20181.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles

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