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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftHypertable Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2007201020092016
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C++
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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 automaticallyrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate 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 applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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