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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 ScioreA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatawakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonElasticSTS Soft SCRocket SoftwareWakanda SAS
Initial release20072010201119852012
Current release8.6, January 20234.0.8, September 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#CC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)optionalyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedyes

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