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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcouchdb.apache.orgtempoiq.com (offline)tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTempoIQWakanda SAS
Initial release20072005201220092012
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APITinkerPop 3RESTful HTTP 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
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes 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 possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
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 databasesimple authentication-based access controlnoyes

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