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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDBMS for high security requirementsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weblinter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonChris Davisrelex.ruSiteWhere8Kdata
Initial release20072006199020102016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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