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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. SWC-DB

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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