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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Databricks vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 ScioreThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.databricks.com
DeveloperAmazonDatabricksSTS Soft SCAlex Kashirin
Initial release2007201320112020
Current release4.0.8, September 20150.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no
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Amazon SimpleDBDatabricksSTSdbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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