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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.memcached.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072006200319922004
Current release1.6.25, March 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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