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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 ScioreDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.io/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.Actian CorporationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release200720161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20131987
Current release11.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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