DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. TigerGraph

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

CCRi and others

Google

Oushu

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Role-based access control

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