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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Linter vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.RDBMS for high security requirementsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledblinter.rumemgraph.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbmemgraph.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akerrelex.ruMemgraph Ltdquasardb
Initial release20072008199020172009
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 automaticallyyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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