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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Fauna vs. Geode vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dolphindb.comfauna.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.fauna.comgeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDolphinDB, IncFauna, Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.STS Soft SC
Initial release20072018201420022011
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20221.1, February 20174.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Administrators, Users, GroupsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights per client and object definableno

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