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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 ScioreEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonSoftmotionsGoogleManticore SoftwareRockset
Initial release20072012201420172019
Current release2.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleandynamic typing
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.noCan index from XMLno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
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
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
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
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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