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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

newdatabase.com

www.exasol.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.exasol.com/resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

Mobiland AG

Exasol

Baidu

Initial release

2007

2018

2000

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
Lua
Python
R

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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