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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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 ScioreWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.orgtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release2007200820122018
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
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 applicationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
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)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access controlyes

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