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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GridGain vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 ScioreGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.gridgain.comopentsdb.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072007201120112018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.14.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsnonoRole-based access control

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