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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Datomic vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.datomic.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.datomic.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2013

2011

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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