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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Galaxybase vs. NuoDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Galaxybase vs. NuoDB vs. YottaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 platformNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgalaxybase.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdoc.nuodb.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2007201720132001
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infotunable commit protocoloptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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