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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Galaxybase vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 ScioreScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgalaxybase.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Boiler Bay Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072017200220142013
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
JavaJavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlnonosimple password-based access control

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