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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.graphengine.io

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2010

2012

2011

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

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