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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAmazonDolphinDB, IncChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Google
Initial release20072018200620102014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++PythonErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersnononoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Administrators, Users, GroupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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