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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 ScioreA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcouchdb.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sequoiadb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072005201220132017
Current release3.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleoptimistic lockingDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturessimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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