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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EJDB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB vs. YTsaurus

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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)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2012

2011

2012

2023

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

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#
Java

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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)

yes

Access Control Lists

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Recent citations in the news

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

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12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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22 September 2018, oreilly.com

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