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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FatDB vs. RDFox vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Oxford Semantic Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2017

2011

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Roles, resources, and access types

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