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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Datomic vs. OpenTenBase vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Datomic vs. OpenTenBase vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 ScioreDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.datomic.comdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
prometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCognitectOpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release200720122015
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data only
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.nono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyes infoby Federation
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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